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1,672 entries match Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02]
1855
#13734
Food and its adulterations: Comprising the reports of the analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive, revised and extended being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public; and containing the names and addresses of the various merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen of whom the analysed articles were purchased.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link. Significantly expanded as Food: its adulterations and methods for their detection, London: Longmans, Green, 1876. Digital facsimile of the 1876 edition from …
1855
#13864
Descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of plants contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1856
#2079
Analyse physiologique des propriétés des systèmes musculaires et nerveux au moyen de curare.
Bernard paralysed motor nerve-endings with curare and demonstrated the independent excitability of muscle. He showed that curare acted by stopping the transmission of impulses from motor nerves to voluntary muscles.
1856
#1862.1
Lehrbuch der Arzneimittellehre.
Buchheim created the first pharmacological institute in the world at the University of Dorpat.
1856
#2078
Physiologische Untersuchungen über die Wirkung einiger Gifte.
First investigation of the effects of poisons on muscular contraction.
1856
#9603
Nicandrea. Theriaca et Alexipharmaca recensuit et emendavit fragmenta collegit, commentationes addidit Otto Schneider. Accedunt scholia in Theriaca excensione Henrici Keil.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1856
#9667
Traité d'hygiène navale, ou de l'influence des conditions physiques et morales dans lesquelles l'homme de mer est appelé à vivre et des moyens de conserver sa santé.
One of the first naval manuals to include discussions of zootoxicology. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Much expanded second edition (1877); digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1857
#1996
Die Electricität in der Medicin.
Ziemssen confirmed Remak’s discovery of the motor points, established their exact location, and published exact instructions for finding the motor points for stimulating the various muscles of the body.
1857
#1863
Leçons sur les effets des substances toxiques et médicamenteuses.
Bernard included a summary of his experiments with curare in the Leçons to establish his priority in researching its effects. He demonstrated in these experiments the susceptibility of the nerve-muscle preparation to …
1857 –1859
#10514
Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior
Vol. 1, pt. by W. H. Emory. Vol. 1, pt. 2: Geological reports by C.C. Parry and Arthur Schott, notes by W. H. Emory; Paleontology and geology of the boundary by James Hall; Description of cretaceous and tertiary fossi…
1857
#12973
Catalogue de la bibliothèque scientifique de MM. de Jussieu, dont la vente aur lieu le lundi 14 janvier 1858 et jours suivants, à sept heurs du soir....
Auction catalogue of the library of the de Jussieu dynasty of botanists. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1858
#1996.1
Galvanotherapie der Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten.
Remak was a pioneer of galvanotherapy. Having treated some 700 patients with galvanic current, he believed that it was superior to faradic current for electrotherapy.
1859
#7446
On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859).
The first important botanical work by a supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Hooker, a botanist and plant geographer, had been a close friend of Darwin for many years, and was aware of Darwi…
1859 –1933
#11961
Flora capensis: Being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal. 7 vols. in 11.
This work was published over 73 years. Vols. 1-3 were by Harvey and Sonder. The remaining volumes were by "Various Botanists" edited by Thiselton-Dyer, except for Vol. 5, Section 2 (Supplement) edited by Arthur Willia…
1859
#12501
Sulle virtù igieniche e medicinali della coca e sugli alimenti nervosi in generale.
After a four-year stay in South America Mantegazza published this report on medical observations on the use of Erythroxylon coca leaves of the populations in the places where he stayed and practiced. He reported that,…
1859
#13815
Zoologie médicale exposé méthodique du régne animal basé sur l'anatomie, l'embryologie et la paléontologie comprenant la description des espèces employées en médicine de celles qui sont venimuses et de celles qui sont parasites de l'homme et des animaux. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1860
#1864
Du coaltar saponiné, désinfectant énergique, arrètant les fermentations, de ses applications a l'hygiène, la thérapeutique, a l'histoire naturelle.
Lemaire was first to point out the antiseptic properties of carbolic acid. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1860
#1865
Ueber eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern.
Isolation of cocaine, 1859, from the coca leaf, brought from Peru by Scherzer.
1860
#2104
Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake.
See No. 2106.
1860
#8818
Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.
At the time of publication of this work, which contained texts in both Sanskrit and English, Waring was "Physician to His Highness The Maha Rajah of Travancore." Digital facsimile of the 1860 edition from the Biodiver…
1860
#8971
Colección de medicamentos indigenas y sus aplicaciones, estraidos de los reinos vegetal, mineral y animal, recogidos y anotados por [...], segunda edición corregida y aumentada.
Digital facsimile of the 5th edition (1875) from the National Library of Medicine, Internet Archive at this link.
1861
#5028
Die Hydrotherapie des Typhus.
Brand’s cold bath treatment of typhoid fever consisted of total immersion in water at 65°F. and the pouring of cold water over the neck and shoulders. The cold bath treatment of fevers was instituted by Currie (see No…
1861
#8914
On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing.
Darwin's first work on plant fertilization and the first volume of evidence that he published to support the theories advanced in On the origin of species (1859). This was also the only book by Darwin that was issued …
1861
#9171
Flora hongkonensis: A description of the flowering plants and ferns of the island of Hongkong.
The first comprehensive work on any part of the flora of China and Hong Kong. It included the first published description of Hong Kong Croton, or Croton hancei.
1861
#10049
The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862
#2388
Della trasmissione delle sifilide mediante la inoculazione del sangue.
Proof of the possibility of transmission of syphilis by blood transfusion.
1862
#7792
Poetae bucolici et didactici: Theocritus, Bion, Moschus....Phile De animalibus, elephanti, plantis....
Manuel Philes of Ephesus wrote didactic poems on the characteristics of animals, chiefly based upon Aelian and Oppian, and a didactic poem of some 2000 lines, dedicated to Michael IX Palaiologos; on the elephant, and …
1862 –1883
#9173
Genera plantarum: Ad exemplaria imprimis in Herberiis Kewensibus servata definita; auctoribus G. Bentham et J.D. Hooker. 3 vols. in 9 parts.
First publication of the Bentham & Hooker taxonomic system for seed plants published before there were internationally accepted rules for botanical nomenclature. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Archiv…
1862
#9678
Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions.
Reprinted, with continuous pagination, and index from the Pharmaceutical Journal for July and August, 1860, for November and December, 1861, and for February 1862. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this l…
1862
#11311
Health: Its friends and foes.
This work, which promoted vegetarianism and abstinence from tobacco along with other hygiene and overall health advice, was written as the author stated in his preface, "to meet the comprehension of the general reader…
1863
#1865.1
Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural: Being also a medical botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants and shrubs.
The first extensive treatise on the botany of the Southern States of the US and the only Confederate manual of materia medica. This is also a manual of “survival information”, teaching how live off the land and how to…
1863
#6492.2
La médecine chez les Chinois par Le capitaine P. Dabry. Ouvrage corrigé et précédé d’une préface par J. Léon Soubeiran.
The best account of Chinese medicine published in Europe during the 19th century, including translations from original Chinese medical texts. Dabry was French consul at Hang-Keou. Soubeiran, a pharmacist, edited his w…
1863 –1878
#9172
Flora Australiensis: A description of the plants of the Australian territory by George Bentham, assisted by Ferdinand Mueller. 7 vols.
The first comprehensive flora of any large continental area. It included descriptions of 8125 species. "Bentham prepared the flora from Kew; with Mueller, the first plant taxonomist residing permanently in Australia, …
1864
#1866
British pharmacopoeia, published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Medical Act, 1858.
PHARMACOPOEIA
First official British pharmacopoeia.
1864 –1866
#6534
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.
This set contains many texts relating to medieval English medicine and the Anglo-Saxon language. It contains the Herbal of Apuleius in Anglo-Saxon and modern English, the Leechbook of Bald, the text of Sextus Placitus…
1865
#1996.2
Gimnástica, hygiénica, medica, y ortopédica.
Busqué developed the modern concept of rehabilitation.
1865
#8910
On the movements and habits of climbing plants.
Darwin's report on his discoveries concerning the adaptive value of climbing for certain plants, including the development of circumnutation. Darwin waited ten years to publish the first edition in book form (1875) wi…
1866
#222
Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden.
Discovery of the Mendelian ratios, the most significant single achievement in the history of genetics. The story of how Mendel published his paper in this relatively obscure journal only to have his discovery ignored …
1866
#8963
Botanik der spaeteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhuntert.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1866
#13251
On uncontrollable drunkenness considered as a form of mental disorder. With suggestions for its treatment, and the organization of sanitoria for dipsomanics.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1867
#1996.3
On the electrolytic treatment of tumors, and other surgical diseases.
Althaus introduced Duchenne’s methods into England. He was the first to employ electrolysis for medical purposes. Greatly expanded third edition, 1873.
1867
#1792
Alberti Magni ex ordine praedicatorum de vegetabilibus libri VII: Historiae naturalis pars XVIII. Editionem criticam ab Ernesto Meyero coeptam: Absolvit Carolus Jessen.
One of the best works on natural history produced during the Middle Ages, and, like most of Albertus's works, influential throughout the medieval period, though it does not appear to have been published in print until…
1867
#1866.1
On the physiological action of the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum, Balf).
Isolation of eserine (physostigmine).
1867
#2080
Micro-chemistry of poisons.
The first American book entirely devoted to toxicology and an important contribution to the identification of poisons.
1867
#1745
Etude médico-légale et clinique sur l’empoisonnement.
1867
#3275
Die Anwendung der Galvanokaustik im Innern des Kehlkopfes und Schlundkopfes.
Voltolini was the first to use the galvanocautery in laryngeal surgery.
1867
#2890
On the use of nitrite of amyl in angina pectoris.
Lauder Brunton was responsible for the introduction of amyl nitrite for the alleviation of angina. Reprinted in F. A. Willius & T. E. Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 561-64.
1867
#3914.1
On researches intended to promote an improved chemical identification of diseases.
Discovery of the first porphyrin, hematoporphyrin (p. 227). Hematoporphyrin has also been used as an antidepressant and antipsychotic since the 1920s,
1867
#9019
Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache.... von M. Steinschneider.
Written about 970 CE, this is the earliest surviving medical treatise written in Hebrew to which an approximate date can be assigned. Donnolo, who was at one time Byzantine court physician, is one of the earliest Jewi…
1867
#9869
Prize essay. Ancient transfusion and infusion compared with modern transfusion, infusion, and hypodermic or subcutaneous injections. Translated by Charles F. Wittig.
A comprehensive review, for the time, of the historical literature on these subjects. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.